Polychaeta name details
original description
Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218 page(s): 134-136, plate VIII figs. 2, 2a, 2b, 2c [details]
basis of record
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv [details]
additional source
Salazar-Vallejo, S. I.; Carrera-Parra, L. F.; Muir, A. I.; De León-González, J. A.; Piotrowski, C.; Sato, M. (2014). Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3842(1): 1-68., available online at https://mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03842p068.pdf page(s): 42 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf page(s): 35 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Unknown. [details]
Distribution Philippine Islands. [details]
Etymology The species is dedicated to Carl Gottfried Semper (Altona, Hamburg, July 6 1832 - Würzburg, May 29 1893), a German ethologist and animal ecologist, who collected the type material in Philippines. [details]
Habitat Unknown. [details]
Taxonomy Fauchald (1977: 85) considered the genus Platysyllis, with its single species P. semperiana, as indeterminable. [details]
Type locality Philippine Islands, probably Bohol Island ("[Bohol?]"; Grube, 1878: v). In the same publication the type locality is also given as being "Von den Philippinen (Tatihou?)" (Grube, 1878: 134), which seems to be a lapsus calami. Tatihou is an island in the Atlantic coast of France, in Normandy. Quite probably Grube was referring to one of two locations cited in the same work, Talibon or Tuhigon (= Tubigon), both located at Bohol Island and about 50 km distant from each other. In the absence of further data and considering Grube's own question marks, the type locality is here considered as being probably Bohol Island. [details]
Type material Apparently not deposited at the MPW or ZMB, where other type material described by Grube (1878) is deposited. Salazar-Vallejo et al. (2014) refer the type material as being at the ZMB, but no types of this species are referred in the catalogue by Hartwich (1993), of types of Polychaeta deposited at the Zoological Museum, Berlin. [details]
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